The Delta independent., 1887-04-19
TELEGRAPH BREYTTIES.

10 ShtSu.
A high license bill has passed the
Pennsylvania Legislature.
A cyclone has been creating havoc
in the vicinity of st. Clairsville, Ohio.
John T. Raymond, the comedian,
died al Evansville, Indiana, last week.
Columbia College, New York. cele-
brated its Tooth anniversary on the 18th.
Two banks have been started at Flag
staff, Arizona within the last thirty days.
A war is pending between the stove
moulders and the manufacturers all over
the country.
Dry weather is endangering the win
| ter wheat in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas
| and Missouri.
Some California fruit growers con-
| template planting orchards on large scale
near Santa Fe.
Samuel Shannon, of Cheyenne, has
been appointed Secretary of State of Wyo-
ming Territory.
The drouth in Texas continues un-
| broken and complaints from the cotton belt
are increasing.
A caucus of Republican members of
| the Michigan Legislature has decided to in
troduce bill for high license.
The Michigan House of Representa-
tives defeated the bill to grant the suffrage
to women by a vote of 30 to IS.
The aggregate of farm products in
Kansas last year was s59O.iO for every man,
woman and child in the State.
A panic was created among the in
mates of the Cook county jail by a fire
which was started by an insane inmate.
The physicians of Mr.. Blaine say
that all danger is past. He will, however,
remain at Fort Gibson several days longer.
| The Knights of Labor of Pittsburg
have formed National District Assembly
composed entirely of iron and steel-work-
ers.
A trapper from the Upper Gila, New
Mexico, claims to have trapped and sold
500 worth of beaver pelts since the first of
January.
The Delaware Legislature passed a
bill prohibiting absolutely the manufacture
and sale of all kinds of imitation adulter-
ated butter.
Three men were killed and eight or
nine wounded in the wreck of a construc-
| tion train on the Ohio River railroad near
| Parkersburg.
The valuable collections of paintings
| left by the late Miss Catharine l.. Wolfe, of
New York City, goes to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Daniel Huffman. who has been on
trial at Nebraska City for train-wrecking
has been convicted and sentenced to be
hanged July &c
The arrivals of emigrants at Queens
town are so numerous that travellers are
compelled to camp in the streets while
awaiting vessels.
Sarah E. Howe, who started wo-
mans bank in Boston some time ago and
got into the courts, has fled with $50. 900 be-
longing to her dupes.
The Police Judge of Des Moines has
shlFpta ioi Stitud 10 SsttHt lllt tNlISt-
quenees of the 'misappropriation of large
sum collected in fines.
Topeka has decided on street pave
ments, and managers of Colorado stone
quarries are on hand presenting the
merits of their product.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was
held in Washington Thursday night to ex-
press sympathy for Ireland. Many promi-
nent men were in attendance.
Parties of Mormon missionaries, who
have been at work in the mountains near
Raleigh, North Carolina, have been badly
beaten and driven into Georgia.
A fire at st. Augustine. Florida.
caused loss of saso,ooo. Among the burned
buildings are two hotels, the old Spanish
Cathedral and the Court House.
Tho infant daughter of Secretary
Whitney was christened at st. Johns Epis-
copal church in Washington on Easter with
extraordinary pomp and display.
In skirmish at Holbrook. Arizona.
between cowboys and Mexicans one of the
latter was killed and several others were
wounded. The quarrel began at dance.
Germany has decided that Germans
who have become citizens of the United
States will be liable to expulsion from Ger
many until they acquire German rights.
Edward Maloney and Annie Maunce
were burned to death in prairie fire seven
miles from Huron, Dakota, and Kate Malo-
ney was so badly burned that she will
die.
s. h. Jones. Assistant General Pas
senger Agent of the Union Pacific, has
been offered the Secretaryship of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. Hewill
probably accept
The village of Farnham on the Rap
pahannock River, in Virginia, was de-
stroyed by fire on the llth. A Protestant
Episcopal church that was built in colonial
days was also destroyed.
A young lady of Pittsburg, who had
a remarkably luxuriam head of hair, was
overpowered few days ago by peddler
and put under the influence of chloroform
When she regained consciousness her hair
was missing.
The President has appointed as Com
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